Aristocrats of Color : The Black Elite, 1880-1920 /

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Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the geneal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gatewood, Willard B., Jr. (Willard Badgett), 1931-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bruce, Josephine, > 1853-1923.
Bruce, Blanche Kelso, > 1841-1898.
Elite
Upper class.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Classes superieures > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Classes superieures > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Moeurs et coutumes.
Upper class > United States > History > 20th century.
Upper class > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > History > 19th century.
USA
Schwärze
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Background and antecedents
  • Washington: capital of the colored aristocracy
  • Aristocrats of color in the south
  • The "upper tens" in the northeast
  • Elites in the midwest and west
  • The color factor
  • The genteel performance
  • Upper-class club life
  • The education of the elite
  • Churches of the aristocracy
  • Aristocrats of color and Jim Crow
  • Into the 1920s.

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